The following is a food chain that starts with plants and ends with a human: plants→ bee→ human
(a) Explain how plants provide food for bees.
(b) How do bees provide food for humans?
(c) How does this food chain differ from a usual food chain involving human such as plants→goat→human?
(d) Do you think that the food chain given in this question can really be regarded as a food chain? Explain your answer.
The following is a food chain that starts with plants and ends with a human: plants→ bee→ human
(a) Explain how plants provide food for bees.
(b) How do bees provide food for humans?
(c) How does this food chain differ from a usual food chain involving human such as plants→goat→human?
(d) Do you think that the food chain given in this question can really be regarded as a food chain? Explain your answer.
(a) The nectar present in the flowers of plants serves as food for bees. Bees suck nectar from the flowers.
(b) Humans do not directly eat the bees but they consume honey made by bees as food.
(c) This food chain differs from a usual one, as humans, here, consume honey made by bees, whereas, in another food chain, Plants → Goats →Humans, humans consume the meat of goats directly.
(d) No, it cannot be regarded as a food chain, because here humans do not consume bees directly but consume the food made by them. Whereas in a food chain the larger organism eats the smaller and weaker one.
(a) The nectar present in the flowers of plants serves as food for bees. Bees suck nectar from the flowers.
(b) Humans do not directly eat the bees but they consume honey made by bees as food.
(c) This food chain differs from a usual one, as humans, here, consume honey made by bees, whereas, in another food chain, Plants → Goats →Humans, humans consume the meat of goats directly.
(d) No, it cannot be regarded as a food chain, because here humans do not consume bees directly but consume the food made by them. Whereas in a food chain the larger organism eats the smaller and weaker one.
